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Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book: The Nativity (recto) and St. Matthew (verso)

c. 1190

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Germany, Helmarshausen Abbey, 12th century

Ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum

Sheet: 34.6 x 23.4 cm (13 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.); Framed: 52.4 x 39.7 cm (20 5/8 x 15 5/8 in.); Matted: 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.445

Location

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Description

This leaf comes from a volume that is preserved in the Trier Cathedral Library in Germany (Codex 142).

Provenance

Cathedral of Paderborn(?), Germany

1777

Convent of Kenmade, Westphalia, Germany

Count von Kesselstadt

-1933

Private Collection, Westphalia, Germany

1933

N. V. Internationale Antiquiteiten Handelmaatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1933-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Swarzenski, George. "Aus dem Kunstkreis Heinrichs des Löwen," Städel-Jahrbuch VII-VIII, (1932). pls. 211- 212, p. 263 ff

Jansen, Franz. Die Helmarshausener Buchmalerei zur Zeit Heinrichs des Löwen. Hildesheim: August Lax, 1933. pp. 118, 119, pl. 29

Milliken, William M. "Manuscript Leaf from the Time of Duke Henry the Lion." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 21, no. 3 (1934). pp. 35-9 www.jstor.org

Arts of the Middle Ages [Boston, 1940]. Boston [MA]: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1940. no. 22, pl. XIX

Siffrin, Petrus. "Eine Schwesterhandschrift des Graduale von Monza: Reste zu Berlin, Cleveland und Trier," Ephemerides Liturgical (1950). pp. 53-80

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 105 archive.org

Grabar, André, Carl Nordenfalk, and Stuart Gilbert. Romanesque Painting: From the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century. [New York]: Skira, 1958. p. 195

Cleveland Museum of Art, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958. repr. 22

Wixom, William D. "The Helmarshausen Latin Gospels." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 4 (1959). pp. 58-59 www.jstor.org

Ronig, Franz. "Ein Fehlendes Blatt der Handscrift NR. 142/124 des Trierer Domschatzes" Archiv für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte XIII (1961). pp. 404-412

Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, Supplement. New York: Bibliographical Society, 1961. 427

Dinkler-von Schubert, Erika. Der Schrein der Hl. Elisabeth zu Marburg; Studien zur Schrein-Ikonographie. Marburg an der Lahn: Verlag des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars der Universität, 1964. 14f., abb. 24

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 50 archive.org

Korzus, Bernard, and Heinz Stoob. Kunst und Kultur im Weserraum, 800-1600; Ausstellung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Corvey, 1966. Münster in Westfalen: [Aschendorff], 1966. no. 194, p. 508, repr. p. 684

Ronig, Franz. "Die Darstellung der Geburt Christi: Ein Bild aus dem Geist hochmittelalterlicher Theologie" Saarheimat 12 (December 1968). p. 319, repr. cover

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 50 archive.org

Munro, Thomas. Form and Style in the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetic Morphology. Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1970. pl. V

Hoffmann, Konrad, and Florens Deuchler. The Year 1200: A Centennial Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 12 Through May 10, 1970. 1970. p. 267, fig. 265

Clemoes, Peter. Anglo-Saxon England. 2. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1973. repr. pl. Ia

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 56 archive.org

British Archaeological Association. Medieval Art and Architecture at Winchester Cathedral. [London]: British Archaeological Association, 1983. p. 25, fig. VIIIb

De Winter, Patrick M. "The Sacral Treasure of the Guelphs." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 1 (1985). p, 110, no. 81 www.jstor.org

Meckseper, Cord. Stadt im Wandel: Kunst und Kultur des Bürgertums in Norddeutschland 1150-1650 : Ausstellungskatalog. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Edition Cantz, 1985.

Luckhardt, Jochen, and Franz Niehoff. Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit: Herrschaft und Repräsentation der Welfen 1125-1235 : Katalog der Ausstellung, Braunschweig 1995. München: Hirmer, 1995. repr p. 579, G 79

Ronig, Franz. Ein romanisches Evangeliar aus Helmarshausen im Trierer Domschatz: (Ms. Nr. 142/124/67). Trier: Paulinus, 1999. Fig. 19, 20, 32

Bogen, Steffen. Träumen und Erzählen Selbstreflexion der Bildkunst vor 1300. München: W. Fink, 2001. Pg 79, no 25

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 119-121, no. 37

Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. p. 124, repr. p. 125, no. 40

Loer, Ulrich. "Heilssuche in romanischer Zeit - Ecclesia und Synagoge unter dem Kreuz: Auf den Spuren des Evangeliars Heinrichs des Lowen in Soest." das munster (4/2013, 65. Jahrgang): 274-87. p. 282, fig 12

García Avilés, Alejandro, and Antonia Martínez Ruipérez. Las profecías de las Sibilas: imágenes paganas en el arte cristiano (siglos v-xv). 2019, 70. Mentioned and reproduced; pp. 70-71, fig. 92.

Exhibition history

Arts of the Middle Ages 1000-1400. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (February 17-March 24, 1940).

Kunst und Kultur im Weserraum 800-1600. Corvey (1966).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Pages From Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (April 24-June 8, 1963).

Religious Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (December 15, 1964-January 10, 1965).

Die Kunst und Kultur und der Weser in der Zeit von 800 bis 1600. Corvey Castle, Corvey, Höxter, Germany (May 15-September 15, 1966).

Stadt im Wandel: Kunst und Kultur des Bürgertums in Norddeutschland (City in Transition: Art and Culture of the Bourgeoisie in Northern Germany). Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Germany (organizer) (August 24-November 24, 1985).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

The Decorated Letter and the Illuminator's Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 25-December 19, 1993).

Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit (Henry the Lion and his time). Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (organizer) (August 6-November 12, 1995).

Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/imperial-splendor.

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Germany, Helmarshausen Abbey, 12th century

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